Practical consensus recommendations for tumor margins and breast conservative surgery

Abstract

My suggestion: There is no difference in survival of breast cancer patients treated with either mastectomy or with breast conservation therapy combined with external beam radiotherapy. A positive margin (s) is an important factor contributing to the increased risk of local recurrence. However, in published literature, there is a lack of consensus on the definition of acceptable margin (s). As a result decision process about need for re-excision after positive margins remains uncrear.

Keywords

• Acceptable margin
• extensive intraductal component
• nodal metastasis
• original size
• re-excision
• resection